Defending animals is defending the environment. Period. We can’t segment our struggle any longer.

Thank you for visiting our animal defence section. Before reading our main essay, please join us in a moment of compassion and reflection.

The wheels of business and human food compulsions are implacable and totally lacking in compassion. This is a downed cow, badly hurt, but still being dragged to slaughter. Click on this image to fully appreciate this horror repeated millions of times every day around the world. With plentiful non-animal meat substitutes that fool the palate, there is no longer reason for this senseless suffering. Meat consumption is a serious ecoanimal crime. The tyranny of the palate must be broken. Please consider changing your habits in this regard.

WHERE DOES OUR FOOD COME FROM?
In the "industrialised West" this is one of the best kept secrets. Guess why.

Patrice Greanville

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]onfronting organised human cruelty and exploitation of animals is always shocking. Exposés like this appear to many people as "strident", tedius and tiresome appeals by people who "can't tell the difference" between real urgent priorities (you name the human cause) and the plight of billions of animals, whose mindboggling suffering is automatically relegated to secondary or tertiary levels of importance. That kind of reasoning is grounded in false premises. As we have said elsewhere, being a supporter of animal liberation is today being a consistent ecologist, for no one can think herself or himself a serious environmentalist while munching on steak, eggs and stuffing himself with burgers. It just doesn't add up. For the animal production industry in our modern world is an industry whose effects on our climate are as grave if not more deleterious than all the vehicular emissions in our planet, and other activities connected with the production of "greenhouse gases" starting with the petroleum industry, an industry that should have been retired decades ago, but which today continues to control entire nations. That is a failure of leadership of colossal and criminal proportions, a prime example of short-term thinking, and a gamble on the future of this planet that no one, under any reasoning, has the right to make.